Stalinist city planning : professionals, performance, and power /
"Based on research in previously closed Soviet archives, this book sheds light on the formative years of Soviet city planning and on state efforts to consolidate power through cityscape design. Stepping away from Moscow's central corridors of power, Heather D. DeHaan focuses her study on 1...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Toronto ; Buffalo ; London :
University of Toronto Press,
[2013]
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : planners, performance, and power
- From Nizhnii to Gorky : setting the stage of socialism
- Visionary planning : confronting socio-material agencies
- From ivory tower to city street : building a new Nizhnii Novgorod, 1928-1935
- Stalinist representation : iconographic vision, 1935-1938
- Stalinism as stagecraft : the architecture of performance
- A city that builds itself : the limits of technocracy
- Performing socialism : connecting space to self
- Conclusion : living socialism in the shadow of the political.